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Shadows in the forest :Japan and the politics of timber in Southeast Asia
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- 0585337888
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- 1 online resource (x, 308 pages) :illustrations, map.
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On the Way to the (Un)Known?: The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
Twenty-two authors from various countries analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The volume discusses questions of perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and explores possibilities and limits of digital analysis.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783110698046, 9783110697605
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- 420
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- Studies on Modern Orient, 36
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- 297 ONT o
Confucian Role Ethics : A Moral Vision For The 21st Century?
The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic philosophy presented here is grounded in the primacy of relationality and a narrative understanding of person, and is a challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as discrete, autonomous, rational, free, and often self-intereste…
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- 9783847106050
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- 100 CON
Empire’s violent end : comparing Dutch, British, and French wars of decolon…
In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherl…
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- Bart Luttikhuis
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- 246p
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- 325.309405
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art
Linguistics; Anthropology; Mainland Southeast Asia
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- 9781501501685
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Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its…
Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. Readership: All interested in Mamluk historiography or pre-Islamic history of Iran.
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- 9789004355996
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Migrating Texts : Circulating Translations around the Eastern Mediterranean
Explores translation in the context of the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic late-Ottoman Mediterranean world. Fénelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, excoriated French novels circulating through the Ottoman Empire in Greek, Arabic and Turkish: literary translation at the eastern end of the Mediterranean offered worldly vistas and …
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- 9781474438995
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- 368 halaman
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- Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
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- 900 MIG
Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946
For the past two decades, insights gained from the burgeoning field of borderlands studies have enabled a new generation of scholars to challenge popular depictions of the emergence of the modern Middle East. For them, the region’s borderlands were not just mere sites of peripheral activity, but rather liminal spaces criss-crossed by global flows and circulations central to state- and nation-…
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- 9781474487986
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Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Mid…
An anthropological study based on ethnographic work in Israel and Qatar explores the relationship between science, particularly genetics, and national identity. Based on ethnographic work in Israel and Qatar, two small Middle Eastern ethnonations with significant biomedical resources, Genomic Citizenship explores the relationship between science and identity. Ian McGonigle, originally traine…
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- 9780262366700
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- 305.856
Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime
In Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime, Dana M. Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts—looking specifically at a particular form of gender-based violence known as the “honor crime” and tracing how a range of legal, political, and literary texts inform normative and critical un…
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- 9780814214664
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